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| Picture No | 11077388 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Description | Dummy battleships: vessels of the suicide squadron |
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Dummy battleships: vessels of the Royal Navy suicide squadron in 1918. Wooden dummy battleships, mounting dummy guns, which deceived the Germans for months in the North Sea and decoyed them into the Dogger Bank disaster. 1. In Kephalo harbour in the Aegean. 2. A dummy ship used as a breakwater at Mudros, off the Dardanelles (1916 photo). 3 and 4. In Kephalo harbour.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News, 16th February 1918 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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